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Local Environments

When preparing the WordPress side of your headless store locally, using either one of these desktop applications will help you to create new WordPress sites on your computer with the click of a few buttons. They takes care of configuring PHP, MySQL and basic configuration of WordPress to connect to the database. Some may provides one-click support for enabling XDebug, allow access to your WordPress site using WP-CLI, and more. All you need out of the box. Quickly spin up a local environment from: When setting up your WordPress environment, please check that they match the server requirements that WooCommerce ask for in order to run CoCart.

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Tools

Some useful tools you can use to access the API include:
  • Postman - A multi platform REST API GUI client (using Google Chrome or installing the app on Mac OS X or Windows).
  • Insomnia - Similar to Postman using an app on Mac OS X, Windows or Ubuntu.
  • Bruno - Bruno is a Git-integrated, fully offline, and open-source API client.
  • Hoppscotch - A fast and beautiful API request builder (web alternative to Postman).
  • ExtendsClass - Another web HTTP client.
  • CocoaRestClient - A Mac OS X GUI client for interacting with the API.
  • Paw HTTP Client - Another HTTP client for Mac OS X.
  • Hookbin - Another tool to test web hooks.